Closing the rift is the smart thing to do. Lets you farm blood shards and GR tokens faster. Doing the extra floors after you kill the guardian is the same as starting a new rift, except with no more guardian to kill.
The PTR is not meant to be fun. It's meant for testing. If Blizzard feels they need to test things with the buff on, they can. If you don't want to play with the buff, don't play the PTR.
Get to level 70 by having your friend run you through some bounties. Farm rifts, get full Marauder's set. You'll still be fairly squishy, because that's just how demon hunters are, but you will kill everything before they hit you anyways, except for jailer.
6) How do multiple items with cooldown reduction and skill/bonus damage add up?
Cooldown reduction suffers from diminishing returns, the formula is like this: 1-(1-cdr1)*(1-cdr2)*(1-cdr3) and so on. If you have 8% cooldown reduction from paragon, 20% cooldown reduction from skills, and 6% cooldown reduction from an item, your entire cooldown reduction is not 34% but 1-(1-0.08)*(1-0.2)*(1-0.06) = 1-0.69184 = 0.30816 (or 30.816%).
Get sockets in your weapons. Emeralds in your weapons will give you over 100% crit damage each. Rings and amulet should have crit chance and crit damage. Same with gloves. Helm should have crit chance. You pants currently have int for some reason. Pants needs str, vit, all res and 2 sockets. Chest can easily be upgraded. Look for str, vit, all res and 3 sockets. Bracers aren't bad but could have %element damage instead of armor. Boots could be upgraded to ones with all res. Shoulders should have str, vit, all res and armor or %skill damage.
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There is no cow level.
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Closing the rift is the smart thing to do. Lets you farm blood shards and GR tokens faster. Doing the extra floors after you kill the guardian is the same as starting a new rift, except with no more guardian to kill.
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Turn on elective mode in the settings.
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The PTR is not meant to be fun. It's meant for testing. If Blizzard feels they need to test things with the buff on, they can. If you don't want to play with the buff, don't play the PTR.
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Templar with Immortality token, Eng-Jang-Do, Freeze of Deflection, Ess of Johan/Overwhemling Desire, Untiy + Bul-Kathos Wedding Band/Oculus Ring
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6) How do multiple items with cooldown reduction and skill/bonus damage add up?
Cooldown reduction suffers from diminishing returns, the formula is like this: 1-(1-cdr1)*(1-cdr2)*(1-cdr3) and so on. If you have 8% cooldown reduction from paragon, 20% cooldown reduction from skills, and 6% cooldown reduction from an item, your entire cooldown reduction is not 34% but 1-(1-0.08)*(1-0.2)*(1-0.06) = 1-0.69184 = 0.30816 (or 30.816%).
Taken from the RoS FAQ sticky.
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